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JESSICA REAVES
Jessica Reaves

PUBLICATION(S)
• Chicago Tribune
• Los Angeles Times
• Metromix.com

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Chicago Tribune staff reporter
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Total Reviews: 105


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3.5/4 Mad Hot Ballroom
3/4 Bear Cub
2.5/4 Dot the I
2/4 Short Cut To Nirvana
1.5/4 Ma Mere
1/4 Venom
0.5/4 Tamara
.5/4 Jackass: Number Two
 
 
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.5/4 The Hottie & the Nottie
.5/4 Jackass: Number Two
0.5/4 Tamara
1/4 Broken
1/4 P2
1/4 Two Drifters
1/4 Dead Man's Shoes
1/4 Venom
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This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 69% of the time.

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"Unlike so many of her peers who depend on music to do everything but deliver the dialogue, [director] Riedel isn't afraid of silence; early in the film there's a solid minute of noiselessness as the camera lovingly pans the town, establishing the story's" -- Chicago Tribune
Posted May 15, 2008
 
How the Garcia Girls Spent Their Summers (2008)81%
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2/4
 
"The problem isn't just that the material is cliched and vaguely offensive....It's more that the plot is incredibly predictable, the score is manipulative and the denouement completely unsatisfying." -- Chicago Tribune
Posted May 15, 2008
 
Before the Rains (2008)39%
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2/4
 
"On behalf of every woman who's ever turned down that second piece of cake or spent far too much on anti-aging creams, I want to say: Welcome, Darryl. I hope you'll invite other men on your overdue journey to Obvious Town." -- Chicago Tribune
Posted May 8, 2008
 
America the Beautiful (2001)n/a
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3.5/4
 
"A chorus (average age 80) prepares for a springtime tour, putting their signature spin on classics--classics like The Clash's "Should I Stay or Should I Go."" -- Chicago Tribune
Posted Apr 18, 2008
 
Young@Heart (2008)87%
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2.5/4
 
"Given how thoroughly all the subtext spells out the message, then, it seems unnecessary to make the actual text so raw, grotesque and graphic. Granted, a horror movie about vagina dentata was probably never destined to be tasteful, but Lichtenstein's comp" -- Chicago Tribune
Posted Mar 27, 2008
 
Teeth (2008)79%
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2.5/4
 
"Peirce's obvious respect for the returned soldiers should prevent Stop-Loss from being dismissed as a Hollywood anti-war screed. It's more accurately described as an anti-war movie with a resolutely pro-troop message." -- Chicago Tribune
Posted Mar 27, 2008
 
Stop-Loss (2008)65%
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3/4
 
"You can watch The Band's Visit for its political idealism, or you can watch it for entertainment value alone. In either case, it doesn't disappoint." -- Chicago Tribune
Posted Mar 6, 2008
 
The Band's Visit (2007)98%
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2.5/4
 
"Sticklers for historical accuracy are forewarned: This glossy production plays fast and loose with the facts, abbreviating, altering and excising entire character arcs and plot lines." -- Chicago Tribune
Posted Feb 28, 2008
 
The Other Boleyn Girl (2008)41%
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.5/4
 
"Heidi Ferrer's screenplay...succeeds at just one thing: trumpeting one of the most anti-feminist messages in recent film history." -- Chicago Tribune
Posted Feb 7, 2008
 
The Hottie & the Nottie (2008)5%
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2/4
 
"The movie's total lack of focus and its unimpressive script should render it totally unwatchable. Weirdly, that doesn't quite happen." -- Chicago Tribune
Posted Jan 11, 2008
 
First Sunday (2008)15%
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2.5/4
 
"A sweet, familiar story, beautifully filmed and lovingly told." -- Chicago Tribune
Posted Dec 25, 2007
 
The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep (2007)73%
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2.5/4
 
"But for all the movie’s good cheer, it’s never dull. What it lacks in edginess, it more than makes up for with stunning scenery, a breathless finale and an irresistibly hopeful message." -- Metromix.com
Posted Dec 24, 2007
 
The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep (2007)73%
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2/4
 
"Snippets of sharp, witty dialogue are lost in a sea of sappy clichés and too-cute-for-words plot twists." -- Chicago Tribune
Posted Dec 21, 2007
 
P.S. I Love You (2007)21%
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3.5/4
 
"Assured and sharp, The Savages is only Jenkins' second feature-length film. You'd never know it." -- Chicago Tribune
Posted Dec 20, 2007
 
The Savages (2007)90%
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3/4
 
"While the film shares the novel's stealth appeal ... on the whole it's better: sharper, leaner and less sentimental." -- Chicago Tribune
Posted Dec 14, 2007
 
Starting Out in the Evening (2007)86%
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3/4
 
"It's a wickedly effective indictment of America's consumer compulsion, our mindless shopping and the multinational corporations controlling it all." -- Chicago Tribune
Posted Nov 29, 2007
 
What Would Jesus Buy? (2007)65%
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3/4
 
"This is a compelling, thought-provoking portrait of a quiet challenge rising within America's churches." -- Chicago Tribune
Posted Nov 29, 2007
 
For the Bible Tells Me So (2007)93%
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Click here to read article -- Chicago Tribune
Posted Nov 26, 2007
 
Milarepa (2007)36%
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1/4
 
"[The] script is so uneven that the result is like watching four different, equally bad, movies." -- Chicago Tribune
Posted Nov 12, 2007
 
Broken (2007)13%
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1/4
 
"The same old grim game of cat and mouse. Sure, we hope the mouse gets away. But mostly we just want the whole thing to end." -- Chicago Tribune
Posted Nov 8, 2007
 
P2 (2007)35%
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2.5/4
 
"Wristcutters is quite a bit darker than most mainstream romantic comedies. As you might not expect, it's also quite a bit more inventive and far wittier than most mainstream romantic comedies." -- Chicago Tribune
Posted Nov 1, 2007
 
Wristcutters: A Love Story (2007)66%
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2.5/4
 
"A well-intentioned biopic about disability crusader Richard Pimentel that starts strong but eventually collapses under its weighty sense of responsibility." -- Chicago Tribune
Posted Oct 25, 2007
 
Music Within (2007)31%
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2.5/4
 
"Despite [director] Fox's excruciating level of self-involvement, she manages, more than once, to lay bare critical questions that are at once familiar and compelling." -- Chicago Tribune
Posted Sep 13, 2007
 
Flying: Confessions of a Free Woman (2007)74%
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3/4
 
"If you can get past its relatively minor failings, it's hard not to be seduced by the big heart of this chaotic, colorful movie." -- Los Angeles Times
Posted Sep 13, 2007
 
Across the Universe (2007)53%
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2/4
 
"[A] marginally promising -- but ultimately unfunny -- comedy." -- Chicago Tribune
Posted Sep 13, 2007
 
Mr. Woodcock (2007)13%
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1.5/4
 
"Manufacturing Dissent comes across less as an expose of a polarizing public figure than as the realization of a personal and not especially interesting grudge against a once-admired colleague who has moved on to bigger things." -- Chicago Tribune
Posted Aug 30, 2007
 
Manufacturing Dissent (2007)52%
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3/4
 
"Taut and remorseless, Them, which is allegedly based on actual events, is the perfect antidote to the stomach-churning gore served up by so many in the current crop of horror films." -- Chicago Tribune
Posted Aug 23, 2007
 
Them (2007)63%
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2/4
 
"Some hilarity does, in fact, ensue, but the laughs are interspersed with long stretches of dead air." -- Chicago Tribune
Posted Aug 2, 2007
 
Hot Rod (2007)39%
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3/4
 
"If you've not read Susan Minot's 1998 bestseller Evening, you will be happily oblivious to the movie's glaring departures and free to settle into this languid, gorgeously shot film, which bears only a passing resemblance to the novel." -- Chicago Tribune
Posted Jun 28, 2007
 
Evening (2007)27%
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3/4
 
"The usual pyrotechnics are intact, the corpses pile up and McClane even gets to spit out his signature battle cry." -- Chicago Tribune
Posted Jun 26, 2007
 
Live Free or Die Hard (2007)80%
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3/4
 
"'Restrained' and 'tasteful' are not words normally associated with McG, the director best known for countless music videos and the Charlie's Angels movie franchise. We Are Marshall could change that." -- Chicago Tribune
Posted Dec 21, 2006
 
We Are Marshall (2006)48%
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2.5/4
 
"What makes this movie worth seeing, is, ironically, exactly what may deter potential audiences: It's a rigorous, almost academic examination of a venomous hatred rooted in the past, primed to poison the future." -- Chicago Tribune
Posted Dec 7, 2006
 
Ever Again (2005)50%
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3/4
 
"Silberling demonstrates an unerring ear for the natural, often discomfiting rhythm of two strangers tentatively forging a connection." -- Chicago Tribune
Posted Nov 30, 2006
 
10 Items or Less (2006)62%
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2.5/4
 
"A daring, messy and strangely rewarding patchwork that's straining at the seams." -- Chicago Tribune
Posted Nov 22, 2006
 
Bobby (2006)45%
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1.5/4
 
"... Deck the Halls has little to recommend it." -- Chicago Tribune
Posted Nov 21, 2006
 
Deck the Halls (2006)6%
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3/4
 
"A revelatory, challenging and deeply affecting portrait, anchored by what may be Kidman's most profoundly moving performance to date." -- Chicago Tribune
Posted Nov 16, 2006
 
Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus (2006)30%
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2/4
 
"It's no surprise that you can see A Good Year's plot twists and clunker of an ending from a mile away." -- Chicago Tribune
Posted Nov 9, 2006
 
A Good Year (2006)26%
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2.5/4
 
"It's a solid, if flawed, effort by Adams." -- Chicago Tribune
Posted Nov 9, 2006
 
Come Early Morning (2006)84%
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2/4
 
"After beginning at a healthy clip, the film becomes mired in endless remembrances of debaucheries past and Miami's descent into lawlessness." -- Chicago Tribune
Posted Nov 9, 2006
 
Cocaine Cowboys (2006)70%
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2/4
 
"The action, political intrigue and marital tensions (which prove critical as the story unfolds) never quite coalesce into a compelling whole." -- Chicago Tribune
Posted Oct 26, 2006
 
Catch a Fire (2006)76%
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3.5/4
 
"The memoirist turned screenwriter turned director has hit it out of the park with his first feature, crafting an unflinching, often brutal retrospective of his formative years in Astoria, Queens." -- Chicago Tribune
Posted Oct 19, 2006
 
A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints (2006)75%
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3/4
 
"Insouciant but never cavalier, Coppola's latest effort should prove definitively she's a talent in her own right." -- Chicago Tribune
Posted Oct 19, 2006
 
Marie Antoinette (2006)54%
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3/4
 
"What Ewing and Grady have accomplished here is remarkable -- capturing the visceral humanity, desire and unflagging political will of a religious movement." -- Chicago Tribune
Posted Sep 28, 2006
 
Jesus Camp (2006)87%
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2.5/4
 
"In between the maudlin moments, [director] Davis et al. deliver a sturdy popcorn movie and a few genuine thrills. Not bad for a day on the high seas." -- Chicago Tribune
Posted Sep 28, 2006
 
The Guardian (2006)37%
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1.5/4
 
"This ultimately disappointing comedy starts reasonably strong, delivers a few good laughs, then rolls over and plays dead." -- Chicago Tribune
Posted Sep 28, 2006
 
School for Scoundrels (2006)25%
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.5/4
 
"I don't know what to say about Jackass: Number Two. What is there to say, after all, about a 95-minute foray into feces, intestinal gas, horse semen and a beer funnel inserted into a body cavity that's quite obviously not someone's mouth?" -- Los Angeles Times
Posted Sep 21, 2006
 
Jackass: Number Two (2006)61%
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2.5/4
 
"An enjoyable road movie that feels both comfortable and completely fresh." -- Chicago Tribune
Posted Sep 21, 2006
 
The Puffy Chair (2006)76%
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3/4
 
"... a smart, witty, sexy take on the perils of becoming an adult." -- Chicago Tribune
Posted Sep 15, 2006
 
The Last Kiss (2006)46%
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3/4
 
"Thanks largely to the brutal honesty of its subjects, The Ground Truth transcends the protest genre and delivers a much broader cautionary tale." -- Chicago Tribune
Posted Sep 14, 2006
 
The Ground Truth (2006)87%
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2/4
 
"Unfortunately for director and co-writer Manuel Gomez Pereira, all the energy in the world isn't enough to compensate for the superfluous plot lines and outrageous overacting that weigh down this bit of warm-hearted Spanish fluff." -- Chicago Tribune
Posted Sep 7, 2006
 
Queens (aka Reinas) (2006)43%

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